This dramatic and haunting biopic (the directorial
debut made-for-TV film of Michael Cristofer) told about wild, self-destructive,
bi-sexual US supermodel cover girl Gia Maria Carangi (Angelina Jolie),
who died at the age of 26 due to AIDS (from an infected needle).

In a number of scenes, she played passionate lesbian
love games with photographer's assistant make-up artist Linda (Elizabeth
Mitchell).

There was a daring, naked fashion-shoot behind a chain-link
fence in which they kissed each other across the links.

There was also an extended scene of naked full-body
kissing, including a shared shower scene between the two.

Sensual Lesbian Kissing Between Gia and Linda

The Mask of Zorro (1998)

Sexy
Courtship with a Vigorous Sword

Action film director Martin Campbell's characterization
of Zorro was slightly comedic in this executive-produced action-adventure
swashbuckler - the first Zorro picture made in Hollywood in many
years.

After being imprisoned for twenty years, nobleman Don
Diego de la Vega/Zorro (Anthony Hopkins) passed on his mission and
sword blade to a young apprentice successor - Mexican thief Alejandro
Murrieta /Zorro (Antonio Banderas). Many years earlier, Zorro's infant
daughter Elena was kidnapped - and was now grown to be a beautiful
young lady (Catherine Zeta-Jones), aligned with Zorro's arch-enemy
Don Rafael Montero (Stuart Wilson) (she had been told that he was
her father).

During the tale, the feisty Elena came upon Alejandro
in the barn of Montero's hacienda and claimed: "Give it back...Whatever
it is you have stolen from my father. I want it back. Give it to
me."
She seriously professed that she was up to a sword duel challenge:
"I have had the proper instruction since I was four." His
sword handle popped up at the thought of fighting with her.

Dueling For a Kiss

She proved she was skillfully trained by slashing his
black costume and holding him at swordpoint. He removed his hat,
and she removed her blue robe, as they became more vigorous. She
also complimented him when he cut her white slip ("Not bad").
He replied "Not bad at all"
while he stole a kiss from her. She was doubly enraged when he cut
the sleeve of her blouse and even stole a second kiss from her.

The climax of the duel came when he held her at swordpoint,
commanded: "Don't move!", and dissected her blouse with
a number of diagonal slashes. When her blouse fell to the floor,
she stood there topless (except for her hair covering her breasts).
She turned and covered herself with his hat, as he approached:

Alejandro: "Do you surrender?"
Elena: "Never, but I may scream."
Alejandro: "I understand. Sometimes I have that effect. (He
took her for a very long and sensuous kiss. He snatched back his
hat) Excuse me. (He bowed as he departed) Goodbye, senorita."

Afterwards, she reported to her father: "He was
young and vigorous...very vigorous."

Meet Joe Black (1998)

Long
Sensuous and Awkward Kisses

Martin Brest's tedious, manipulative and overly-long
romance film was rich in production values due to its lavish budget.
It told of the privileged rich in Newport, Rhode Island and in a
Manhattan triplex penthouse. The two main characters who experienced
romance together were:

a handsome, golden-haired lawyer, renamed Joe
Black (Brad Pitt) after a vehicular accident when he reappeared
as an inarticulate, often silent Angel of Death

Parrish's beloved Susan fell in love with the passionless,
metaphysical doppelgänger Joe Black in a doomed relationship.
(Although engaged to be married, she had recently met the young lawyer
in a coffeeshop before his startling death, after which his deceased
body was inhabited by Death, and she couldn't understand why he acted
differently.) The chemistry between the two good-looking yet bland
and passive stars was sometimes visible, but their interactions were
protracted, strange, and overblown.

The two fell in love, after a few protracted, intensely
slow and tender kisses between the couple, first in the rare book
library of the home. She asked: "Joe, may I kiss you?" His
answer: "Why yes, you can." When he kissed her, he didn't
seem to know what to do. It took a few smooches for him to reciprocate.
After their kisses, they awkwardly and formally introduced themselves:

Then, they experienced a lingering love-making scene
in which the two kissed, and then she slowly undressed him - first
his coat, then his tie, vest, and white shirt.

Kissing and Undressing

Once his chest was naked, he began to assist Susan
in stripping off her clothes, and she let down her hair. Soon, they
stood naked kissing, and then reclined back and made love for the
first time.

Practical Magic (1998)

Dreamy
Life of Love and Family with a Man

In this romantic fantasy story about witches, Sandra
Bullock (as introspective orphaned Sally Owens), who grew up in a
family of ostracized witches, ran into the local town to find Michael
(Mark Feuerstein).

She jumped into his arms and kissed him in the street,
to the sounds of Faith Hill singing: "This Kiss":

I don't want another heartbreak, I don't need another
turn to cry
I don't want to learn the hard way, Baby, hello, oh, no, goodbye
But you got me like a rocket, Shooting straight across the sky

It's the way you love me, It's a feeling like this
It's centrifugal motion, It's perpetual bliss
It's that pivotal moment, It's impossible
This kiss, this kiss (Unstoppable), This kiss, this kiss

The film dissolved into three years later, where she
was still kissing him (although he was now bearded), while she narrated
(in voice-over) a letter written to her red-haired sister Gillian
(Nicole Kidman). She was now married, with two daughters, Kylie (Evan
Rachel Wood) and Antonia (Alexandra Artrip):

"Dear Gillian. Today is our third anniversary
and all I have to show for it are two beautiful little girls
and a husband I just can't stop kissing. I don't even mind the
beard. I wish you could see us. No more stones being thrown,
no taunts cried out. Everything is just so blissfully normal.
Life is perfect."

He was her 'dream' of having a normal family. She thought
that the "curse on any man who dared love an Owens woman" had
been lifted, but Michael didn't have long to live. He narrowly avoided
being struck by a pack of cyclists in town while he was carting fresh
produce on a dolly, but then he was hit head-on by a truck. Michael
died an untimely death - proving the curse to be true and leaving
her a widow with two children.

She railed against her Aunt Frances (Stockard Channing)
and Aunt Jet (Dianne Wiest) who had cast the killing spell, and who
never suspected that Sally would really fall in love and become happy:

"It was the curse, wasn't it. He died because
I loved him so much....What spell? What are you talking about?
Oh, oh, you didn't. You didn't. Please tell me that my own flesh
and blood...Well, I did (love him). And I want him back. You
brought him into my life. Now I want you to bring him back! Bring
him back. I have never asked you for anything! I have never asked
you for spells, but do this! I know, I know you can bring him
back here...But you can. You can do this. I know you can...I
don't care what he comes back as. As long as he comes back. Please
do this for me. Please!"

Shakespeare in Love (1998)

"My
Love is Deep" Kiss and "You Will Never Age for Me" Good-bye
Kiss

This Best Picture-winning romance/period drama portrayed
a love affair of the famed English playwright, at the time he was
writing one of his most famous romantic tragedies:

Viola: "I do not know how to undress a man."
Will: "It is strange to me too."

He lovingly unwrapped the bound torso of Viola - as
she spun and twirled around, her nakedness was slowly revealed before
they kissed and made love. Afterwards, Viola told Will as they were
in bed:

"I would not have thought it. There is something
better than a play...Even your play... And that was only my first
try."

She rolled over and kissed him and they shared the
night together. The next morning when the rooster crowed, she urged: "You
would not leave me" and kissed him, although he moaned: "I
must." She continued to tempt him to remain in bed with her,
and he became convinced to linger, although then, she changed her
mind and wanted him to go so that she would be able to act in his
play: "It's broad day. The rooster tells us so."

She became his inspiration for his new work, titled "Romeo
and Ethel, The Pirate's Daughter,"
in a scene that cross-cut between further sensual touching, kissing,
and sexual intercourse between them and a practice-performance of Shakespeare's
new play - with well-timed words:

"Good night, as sweet repose and rest come
to thy heart as that within my breast. Oh, wilt thou leave me
so unsatisfied?...My bounty is as boundless as the sea. My love
is deep. The more I give to thee, the more I have for both are
infinite... Stay but a little. I will come again."

Departure Kisses

They kissed in the film's tearjerking conclusion as
she departed for Virginia, and they pledged themselves to each other
forever when they said good-bye:

Will (with his voice quavering as he sobbed): "You
will never age for me, nor fade nor die."
Viola: "Nor you for me."
Will: "Good-bye, my love. A thousand times good-bye."
Viola: "Write me well."

The Wedding Singer (1998)

A
Life-Changing Practice Church Kiss

The outcome of this mid-80s era romantic comedy about
the impending marriages of a mis-matched couple were altered with
one kiss. The two couples engaged to marry the wrong people were:

The film predictably ended with aspiring song-writer
Robbie and Julia finally finding love together - with two kisses:

on an airplane flight (Julia was on her way to
Las Vegas with Glenn to marry him), Robbie (with his guitar)
serenaded Julia with his own love song dedicated to her: "Grow
Old With You." The passengers applauded when he finished,
and Julia told him: "That was the most beautiful song." He
responded:
"I've got a confession to make. That song was about you. (She
giggled) I'm in love with you." She confessed her own love
for him: "I am so in love with you."
(dissolving into)

their kiss at the altar after they had recited their
vows in their own wedding ceremony (with Dave Veltri (Steve Buscemi)
in the band singing "True")